Rewired: Changing the Way You Think in Recovery

This book is about the six inches between your ears. Not because your heart doesn't matter. Not because your habits don't matter. They do. But here's what a year of sobriety has taught me: the fight is mostly won or lost in your thinking. The relapse starts as a thought weeks before it becomes an action.

Rewired shows you how to catch those thoughts early — the permission-giving lies, the old stories, the excuses that sound reasonable at midnight — and replace them with thinking that keeps you free. Across 51 chapters, Steven Lavoie blends lived experience with anchor practices, honest inventories, and tools you can use the same day you read them. No theory without a toolbox. No honesty without a next step.

Practical, honest, and built to be worked — not just read. If you've ever watched a good day get talked into a bad decision by the voice in your head, this book teaches you how to argue back and win. The chapters are short, the language is straight, and the tools land the same day. Your mind learned the old way once. It can learn a new one now.